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The Lady of Satis House: composer Jacques Cohen talks about finally bringing his 2012 Charles Dickens-inspired monodrama to disc
Jacques Cohen: The Lady of Satis House - Marie Vassiliou at Tete-a-Tete: The Opera Festival in 2012 (Photo: Claire Shovelton)Jacques Cohen's operatic monodrama The Lady of Satis House premiered in 2012. A commission from Bill Bankes-Jones' Tete-a-Tete: The Opera Festival, it was directed by Joe Austin, designed by Emily Harwood and performed by soprano Marie Vassiliou and the Piatti Quartet. 2012 was also the bicentenary of Charles Dickens' birth and faced with writing the opera in six weeks, Jacques chose Miss Havisham from Great Expectations as the subject, drawing his text from Dickens' book.Jacques Cohen (Photo: Lester Barnes)Now, some 12 years after those first performances, the work has appeared on disc, on the Meridian label, again performed by Marie Vassiliou with the Tippett Quartet. The disc also features two of Jacques' works for string quartet, When the Bough Breaks: Three Lullabies for String Quartet and From Behind Glass: Tone Poem for […]
2022-11-11 00:00:00
Arthur Butterworth: Music for Brass Band (Black Dyke Band & Nicholas Childs)
Arthur Butterworth (1923 - 2014): 01 - 03 Three Impressions for Brass, op.36 [11'00]04 Passacaglia on a Theme of Brahms, Op. 87 [11'55]05 - 07 Sinfonia Concertante, op.111 * [15'55]08 Johannes Brahms (transc. Butterworth): Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel, op.24 [21'05]Lesley Howie- tenor horn and Robert Blackburn- baritone horn*, Black Dyke Band conducted by Nicholas ChildsDoyen DOYCD130 [recorded 2001; issued 2001][CD-rip; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Morley Town Hall, West Yorkshire, UKRecording engineers: Harold Barnes and Richard Scott; ProducerS: Paul Hindmarsh and Alison ChildsManchester-born teacher, trumpeter, conductor and composer - no relation to, and not to be confused with, George Butterworth. And here is the only recording of his Fifth Symphony fittingly conducted by the composer. As far as I know, there are still no recordings at all of his Third, Sixth and Seventh Symphonies:01 - 03 Symphony No. 5, op.115 [28'00]04 - 06 Three Nocturnes, […]
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